Technique

The International Ballet Institute’s program combines the refinement of technique, strength, and artistry. The Institute’s curriculum includes: daily ballet technique, pointe, acting for dancers, dance history, choreography composition, and rehearsals for regular student performances that are offered to the public. In a focused and inspired environment the students study the many facets of their heritage as classical ballet dancers.

Students’ acceptance is based solely on merit and artistic promise. With resident and guest faculty from NYC Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Dance Theater of Harlem, and the Kirov Ballet, students are held to the highest standards. The style of training combines the Russian Vaganova and Italian Cecchetti methods with the American Balanchine style, giving students a well-rounded technique that prepares them to work professionally both in the US and abroad.

Choreography Composition

Supplementing the program’s artistic and technical studies is the ongoing development of each student’s choreographic voice, starting with the intermediate beginner levels and continuing through the advanced classes. It is our belief that not only must the dancer look for his or her own talent in order to discover it, but so must the dance maker. Original works both with and without themes and narratives will be required throughout every student’s course of study, thus nurturing an aspect inside each young artist that is not commonly tended to in the course of traditional ballet training, inviting the visions of future dance makers to come forward and opening as many pathways as possible to the furthering of the art form itself.

In short, the International Ballet Institute provides a diversified ballet education to gifted aspiring dancers, preparing them for careers as performing artists on the highest professional levels. All pathways lay open for them.

Philosophy

International Ballet Institute aims to bring the highest levels of both classical ballet training and academia to as many promising talents as possible. When a child, a talent, a dancer, is given the chance to develop their gifts in the realm of ballet, then a life is forever changed. Through consistent applied effort, focused discipline, and nurtured artistry comes mastery, and through mastery comes true self confidence. This allows a human being to actualize their highest selves while unknowingly giving all those around them permission to do the same.

At IBI we recognize the deep power of this caliber of training and education. It is a value that is immeasurable when producing the next generation of ballet artists, along with the next generation of citizens. IBI fosters education and character in their dancers, preparing them to be truly qualified to take our society to the next levels of social and artistic evolution.

Here we seek not only to introduce ballet to potential dancers, but to give those dancers a real chance at excellence on every level. Once they have developed their own gifts they will be equipped to lead the following generations to their own artistic heights, ensuring the futures of the dancers and the dance.

New York City 1.929.289.0368 37 Greenpoint Ave Brooklyn NY contact@balletinstitute.org